OK, I'm gonna bite the bullet and ask a question that's been on my mind for a while. What better day to do it, given that #today is International Transgender Day of Visibility?
In the work I've just completed #plotting, I have the chance to make one of the characters transgender. But as a person of empathy (I hope), I'd want to do it in a real way. Not a tick in the box. Not a jump on a bandwagon. But a sympathetic, hopefully dramatic and moving, representation of what is still a largely unrepresented section of society.
I realise it might be hopelessly unrealistic for a cis, white, hetero, and above all old man to do the character justice, but that's why I'm asking.
Good idea? Bad idea? Pitfalls and gotchas? All responses and reactions gratefully received.
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